List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by location
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Accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by location of the incident.This list is also available: by airline, by year, alphabetically. See also: Accidents and incidents in aviation.
This list is not complete! For more exhaustive lists, see the Aircraft Crash Record Office [1] or the Air Safety Network [2]. Airlines seem to be remembered by their worst accidents, and in that sense this list presents a good overview, but completeness is quite far.
If the aircraft crashed on land, it will be listed under a continent and a country. If the aircraft crashed on a body of water, it will be listed under that body of water.
[edit] Africa
[edit] Algeria
- Air Algerie Flight 6289 - Crashed after takeoff from Tamanrasset, Algeria
- Air France Flight 8969 - Hijacked after takeoff from Algiers and taken back in France
[edit] Nigeria
[edit] Canary Islands, Spain
- KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 - KLM plane crashes into Pan Am plane during takeoff from Tenerife in the Canary Islands (Tenerife disaster)
- Dan Air G-BDAN, impacted a mountain on Tenerife near Los Rodeos, 25 April, 1980
[edit] Côte d'Ivoire
- Varig Flight 797 - Crashed into the jungle after engine failure
[edit] Niger
- UTA Flight 772 - Blown up over the Sahara Desert by Libyan terrorists.
[edit] Andaman Sea
- Korean Air Flight 858 - Blown up over the sea by a bomb planted by North Korean agents
[edit] Antarctica
[edit] Arabian Sea
- Air India Flight 855 - Crashed after takeoff in Bombay (now Mumbai), India
[edit] Asia
[edit] Afghanistan
- Kam Air Flight 904 - Crashed in snowstorm.
[edit] Bahrain
- Gulf Air Flight 072 (23 August, 2000) - Pilot error and an apparent engine fire caused the plane to come down in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Bahrain
[edit] People's Republic of China
[edit] Hong Kong
- Mandarin Airlines Flight 642 - Crashed upon landing in Hong Kong.
[edit] Mainland China
- Air China Flight 129 - Crashed into terrian in low visibility.
- China Northern Flight 6136 - Fire on board caused loss of control and crashed into the sea.
- China Eastern Flight 5210 - Crashed shortly after take off.
[edit] Georgia
- Transair Georgian Airline Crash (22 September) - Shot down as it was trying to takeoff from Sukhumi
[edit] India
- A De Havilland Comet crashed in Jalalogori, India soon after take-off from Calcutta (now Kolkata) on 2 May 1953 - first of a series of crashes that led to Comet 1 fleet being grounded and eventually scrapped.
[edit] Indonesia
- Silkair Flight 185 - Crashed into the Musi River near Palembang, Sumatra
- Garuda Indonesia Airways Flight 152 - Crashed 25km south of Medan killing 234 passegers and crew in 1997
- Mandala Airlines Flight 091 - Crashed into a neighborhood shortly after takeoff from Medan, Sumatra
[edit] Iran
- September 1 2006 - An Iranian passenger jet Tu-154 (Iran Air Flight 945) carrying 148 passengers crashes in Mashad, Iran killing 29 people.
[edit] Japan
- All Nippon Airways Flight 61 - Hijacked and taken back over Tokyo, Japan
- Japan Airlines Flight 123 - Crashed into Mount Osutaka, Japan
[edit] Malaysia
- Singapore Airlines Flight 117 - Hijacked en route from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore.
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 -Hijacked en route from Penang to Kuala Lumpur.
[edit] Nepal
- Thai Airways International Flight 311 - Crashed north of Kathmandu, 111 killed.
- Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268 - Crashed near Kathmandu, 167 killed.
[edit] Pakistan
- Pan Am Flight 73 - Hijacked in Karachi, Pakistan.
- PIA Flight 688 - Crashed after take-off.
[edit] Saudi Arabia
- Iraqi Airways Hijacking - Hijacked on the way from Baghdad to Amman, later crashed after a grenade exploded
- Saudia Flight 163 - Caught fire as it took off on a flight from Riyadh to Jeddah.
[edit] Singapore
- A BOAC Lockheed Constellation, "Belfast", crashed on landing at the Kallang Airport in 1954
[edit] Sri Lanka
- A Martinair DC-8 Series 55F hits Seven Virginsmountain range in Maskeliya, 4 December 1974 - 191 killed.
- An Icelandair DC-8 Super 63CF ploughes into a coconut plantation in Katunayake, 15 November 1978 - 184 killed,78 survivors.
[edit] Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Singapore Airlines Flight 006 - Crashed upon takeoff at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport near Taipei, Taiwan
[edit] Thailand
- Lauda Air Flight 004 - Crashed into a jungle near Suphan Buri and Ban Nong Rong after an in-flight breakup
[edit] United Arab Emirates
- Gulf Air Flight 771 - Bombed, then crashed into a desert in the United Arab Emirates
[edit] Various countries
- Air Vietnam Flight 706 - Hijacked, then crashed after a missed approach at Phan Rang.
- Indian Airlines Flight 814 - Hijacked on the way to India, and flown to India, Pakistan, the UAE, and Afghanistan before the passengers are released.
[edit] Atlantic Ocean
- Air India Flight 182 - Bombed off the coast of Ireland
- American Airlines Flight 63 - Attempted bombing over Atlantic Ocean, terrorist is restrained and sedated
- British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 - Shotdown by German fighter plans in the Bay of Biscay.
- Egyptair Flight 990 - Crashed off the coast of Nantucket
- Kenya Airways Flight 431 - Crashed into the Atlantic shortly after take-off from Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, killing 169
- Swissair Flight 111 - Crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia
- TWA Flight 800 - Crashed off the coast of East Moriches, New York
- Pan Am Flight 125 - Cargo door incident
[edit] Bight of Benin
- UTA Flight 141 - Crashed after takeoff
[edit] Black Sea
- Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 - Shot down by a missile on October 4, 2001
- Transair Georgian Airline Crash (21 September) - Shot down by a missile upon landing.
- Erevan-Sochi -May 2, 2006
[edit] Caribbean Sea
- Cubana Flight 455 bombed, then crashed off Barbados
- Dominicana DC-9 air disaster - Crashed shortly after takeoff
[edit] Central America
[edit] Guatemala
- Cubana Flight 261: DC-10 crash in Guatemala City killed 25 people. [3] [4].
[edit] Panama
- Alas Chiricanas bombing - Bombed near Colon
- COPA Flight 201 - Crashed in the jungle near La Palma
[edit] Europe
[edit] Belgium
- Sabena OO-AUB crashed on landing approach near Ostende
- Sabena Flight 548 crashed on landing approach near Brussels
[edit] Croatia
- British Airways flight 476 collided with Inex-Adria Aviopromet flight 550 in mid-air near Zagreb, killing 176 people on board.
[edit] Czech Republic
- JAT Yugoslav Flight 364, bombed, then crashed in Srbska Kamenice, Czechoslovakia
[edit] Denmark
- Partnair Flight 394, structural failure in tail section, crashes into sea near Hirtshals
[edit] France
- Air France Flight 4590 - Concorde that crashed in Gonesse, France
- Air France Flight 8969 - Hijacked after takeoff from Algiers and taken back in France
- Turkish Airlines Flight 981 - Crashed in Ermenonville, France (Ermenonville air disaster)
- Varig Flight 820 - Crashed near Orly, France after a lavatory fire
- Air France "Chateau de Sully" - Boeing 707 crashed on take-off from Orly
[edit] Germany
- British European Flight 609, crashed in Munich, West Germany (Munich air disaster)
- Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, collided in mid-air with DHL Flight 611.
[edit] Greece
- TWA Flight 840 - Bombed on the way to Athens, Greece, sucking out 4 on board - the plane landed safely.
- Helios Airways Flight 522 - destroyed near Kalamos on way to Athens, with a manifest of 121.
[edit] Italy
- 30 October 2005, Trade Air cargo plane Let 410UVP-E19A crashed shortly after takeoff in Bergamo, Italy. Fatalities: 3
- Scandinavian Airlines Flight 686 - Crashed upon takeoff in Milan, Italy (Linate Airport disaster)
- Itavia Flight 870 - Crashed off Ustica Island, Italy (Ustica Disaster)
[edit] Republic of Ireland
- Aer Lingus Flight 712 - Crashed in 1968, cause unknown.
- KLM Flight 633 - Ditched after takeoff from Shannon Airport
- An American Airlines flight makes an emergency landing at Dublin Airport after experiencing smoke in the cockpit.
[edit] Luxembourg
- Luxair Flight 9642, crashed on final approach to Luxembourg
[edit] Netherlands
- NLM Cityhopper Flight 431: Jet lost wing and partially distintegrated at 900 m (3000 ft) after flying into tornado, crashing near Moerdijk.
- Bijlmer Disaster: El Al Flight 1862 crashed into 2 apartment buildings in Amsterdam.
[edit] Norway
- Bukken Bruse disaster, sea plane broke apart in bad weather upon landing in Trondheim
- Braathens Flight 239, crashed while approaching Fornebu.
- Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, crashed into mountain while landing at Longyearbyen.
[edit] Poland
- LOT Flight 007, crashed near Okęcie Airport in Warsaw.
- LOT Flight 5055, crashed in Kabacki Forest (Warsaw).
[edit] Russia
- Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Siberia (on March 23, 1994)
- Siberia Airlines Flight 1047 crashed near Rostov on Don (August 24, 2004, terror)
- Volga-AviaExpress Flight 1303 crashed in Tula Oblast (August 24, 2004, terror)
- Armavia Flight 967 crashed during approach to Sochi airport (May 3, 2006)
- S7 Airlines Flight 778 crashes in Irkutsk (on July 9, 2006)
- A Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board crashes north of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine (on August 22, 2006).
[edit] Slovakia
- Ilyushin IL-18B of the bulgarian carrier TABSO crashed near Bratislava, 24 November, 1966
- Ilyushin IL-18L of Czechoslovak Airlines crashed shortly before landing in Bratislava, 28 July, 1976
[edit] Slovenia
- Britannia Airways G-ANBB, Crashed into a forest nea Ljubljana, 1 September, 1966.
[edit] Spain
- Dan Air G-APDN, Crashed into a mountain in Catalonia, 3 July 1970.
- Britannia Airways Flight BY226A, crashed on landing at Girona-Costa Brava Airport, 14 Sep 1999.
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] England
- British European Flight 548, crashed in the United Kingdom (Staines air disaster)
- British Airtours Flight 22M, caught fire at Manchester Airport, United Kingdom (Manchester air disaster)
- British Airways Helicopter Flight between Penzance and the Isles of Scilly. Caused by pilot error.
- British Midland Flight 92, crashed in Kegworth, United Kingdom (Kegworth air disaster)
- British Airways Flight 5390, explosive decompression over Didcot, Oxfordshire, landed safely in Southampton, England.
- Ryanair Flight 296, engine fire at London Stansted Airport, United Kingdom
[edit] Scotland
- Dan Air G-BEKF, crashed off the Shetland Islands, 31 July 1979.
- KLM Constellation air disaster, crashed near Prestwick, Scotland.
- Pan Am Flight 103, bomb exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland (Lockerbie disaster)
[edit] Indian Ocean
- Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 - crashed off of the Comoros Islands
[edit] Oceania
[edit] New Zealand
- Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashed during approach on Palmerston North, June 5, 1995.
[edit] North America
[edit] Canada
- Arrow Air Flight 1285 - Crashed shortly after takeoff from Gander
- Air Canada Flight 621 - July 5, 1970 crashed after attempted landing in Toronto; all killed
- Air Canada Flight 189 - On June 26, 1978 it crashed on takeoff in Toronto killing two passengers.
- Gimli Glider - July 23, 1983, an Air Canada Boeing 767-200 jet ran out of fuel over northern Canada and had to glide to a landing at a former airbase at Gimli, Manitoba.
- Pacific Western Airlines Flight 501 - March 22, 1984 burst into flames upon takeoff from Calgary International Airport, no one killed.
- Air Ontario Flight 1363 - On March 10, 1989 an Air Ontario Fokker F28-1000 crashed soon after takeoff near Dryden, Ontario killing 24 of 65 people on board.
- Swissair Flight 111 - On September 2, 1998 the aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Halifax International Airport at the entrance to St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia killing all aboard.
- Air France Flight 358 - On August 2, 2005 burst into flames after overshooting the runway while landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport
[edit] United States, including North American territories
[edit] Arizona
- United Airlines Flight 718 and TWA Flight 2 collide over the Grand Canyon on June 30, 1956.
[edit] Arkansas
- American Airlines Flight 1420 - Crashed upon landing at Little Rock National Airport in Little Rock
[edit] California
- Aeromexico Flight 498 - Collided with a Piper Archer over Cerritos
- BCPA Flight 304 - Crashed near San Francisco
- China Airlines Flight 006 - Plunged 30,000 feet near San Francisco
- PSA Flight 182 - Collided with a Cessna over San Diego
- PSA Flight 1771 - Hijacked and crashed by a disgruntled former airline employee
- USAir Flight 1493 - Collided with a commuter plane while landing in Los Angeles, California.
- JetBlue Airways Flight 292-Landing gear malfunction in Los Angeles, California.
[edit] Connecticut
- Allegheny Airlines Flight 485 New Haven, CT On June 7, 1971, a Convair CV580 with 31 passengers aboard was attempting to land. The aircraft crashed on into a neighborhood approximately one mile short of the runway. The Captain chose to descend below minimums in an attempt to locate the runway under adverse weather conditions. 28 of the 31 people aboard were killed.
[edit] Colorado
- United Airlines Flight 629 - Exploded after a bomb on board detonated over Longmont in 1955 after takeoff from Stapleton Airport in Denver, Colorado - Bomb was placed by John Graham as part of a scheme to collect insurance money
- Continental Airlines Flight 1713 - a Douglas DC-9-14 aircraft crashed on take-off in a snowstorm from the Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport on Sunday, November 15, 1987. The crash resulted in the deaths of 28 of the aircraft's occupants while 54 survived. The airplane was destined for Boise, Idaho.
- United Airlines Flight 585 - Crashed south of Colorado Springs Airport in 1991, officially attributed to a rudder system malfunction according to the NTSB
[edit] District of Columbia
- Air Florida Flight 90 - Crashed in Potomac River in 1982 after hitting 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. shortly after takeoff from Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, during icy conditions
[edit] Florida
- Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 - Crashed in the Everglades in 1972 in a landing attempt
- ValuJet Flight 592 - Crashed in the Everglades in Florida after takeoff
- America West Flight 556 - Ordered back to terminal after pilots were suspected of being drunk
- American Airlines Flight 924 - Passenger shot and killed by air marshal after disembarking
[edit] Illinois
- United Airlines Flight 533 - Stalled after aborting landing at Chicago Midway Airport attempting to go around in low visibility. Watergate suspects wife killed, $10,000 in her purse
- American Airlines Flight 191 - Crashed on take-off O'Hare International Airport, Chicago after No. 1 engine fell off
- Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 - Ran off runway Chicago Midway Airport in snow
[edit] Indiana
- Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 - Crashed southeast of Indianapolis, Indiana on September 9, 1969 due to collision with a private plane, killing all 83 people aboard both aircraft.
- United Airlines tail number NC13304 - Destroyed by a bomb near Chesterton, Indiana
- American Eagle Flight 4184 - Crashed near Roselawn, Indiana due to icing
[edit] Iowa
- United Airlines Flight 232 - Crash-landed at Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City after explosion of the No. 2 engine destroyed all three hydraulic systems
[edit] Kentucky
- Air Canada Flight 797 - Emergency landed at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport; fire consumed much of the aircraft
- Comair Flight 5191 (code share Delta Flight 5191) - Crashed shortly after take-off from Lexington, Kentucky
[edit] Louisiana
- Pan Am Flight 759 - Crashed in Kenner, Louisiana shortly after takeoff from New Orleans.
[edit] Michigan
- Northwest Airlines Flight 255 - Crashed after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, near Detroit
- Comair Flight 3272 - Crashed on approach to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, near Detroit
[edit] New York
- American Airlines Flight 1 - Crashed immediately after takeoff from Idlewild Airport (now JFK airport), New York City. (1962 1 March)
- American Airlines Flight 320 - Crashed in the East River on approach to LaGuardia Airport, New York City. (1959 3 February)
- American Airlines Flight 587 - Crashed in Belle Harbor, Queens, New York City after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport. (2001 12 November)
- Avianca Flight 52 - Crashed at Cove Neck, Long Island, after running out of fuel. (1990 25 January)
- Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 - Crashed after striking the runway lights at Kennedy airport. (1975 24 June)
- Eastern Air Lines Flight 512 - Crashed during go-round after failing to land at Idlewild Airport in the fog. (1962 30 November)
- Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 - Crashes at Jones Beach State Park after takeoff from Kennedy airport when forced to evade inbound PanAm Flight 212. (1965 8 February)
- Northeast Airlines Flight 823 - Crashed on Rikers Island, New York City, during takeoff from LaGuardia Airport. (1957 1 February)
- TWA Flight 266 (inbound to Idlewild Airport) and United Airlines Flight 826 (inbound to LaGuardia Airport) - Collided over Miller Field, Staten Island, New York City. The TWA aircraft crashed at the site while the United aircraft continued flying for 8 miles until it crashed in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. (December 16, 1960)
- American Airlines Flight 11 - Hijacked after takeoff from Boston, crashed in Manhattan, New York City (WTC North Tower) (September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks)
- United Airlines Flight 175 - Hijacked after takeoff from Boston, crashed in Manhattan, New York City (WTC South Tower) (September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks)
- USAir Flight 405 - Crashed during takeoff from LaGuardia Airport. (1992 22 March)
[edit] North Carolina
[edit] Oregon
- United Airlines Flight 173 - DC-8 ran out of fuel and crashed attempting to land, 10 died of 189 aboard, near Portland. (1978 28 December)
[edit] Pennsylvania
- TWA Flight 513 - Training flight crash near Reading on July 11, 1946, grounded the Consellation fleet for 30 days
- United Airlines Flight 93 - Hijacked after takeoff from Newark, New Jersey, crashed in Somerset County (September 11 Terrorist Attacks)
- USAir Flight 427 - Nosedived into the ground near Pittsburgh on September 8, 1994.
[edit] Puerto Rico
- American Eagle Flight 5401 - Crashed while landing in San Juan
- Prinair Flight 191 - Crashed upon landing in Ponce. Pilot error was responsible.
[edit] Texas
- Delta Air Lines Flight 191 - Crashed upon landing in Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport near Dallas
- Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 - Crashed after takeoff from Dallas-Fort Worth Airport near Dallas
- Continental Express Flight 2574 - Crashed on descent in Eagle Lake, Texas, near Houston, September 11, 1991
[edit] Virginia
- American Airlines Flight 77 - Hijacked after takeoff from Dulles, crashed in Arlington (The Pentagon) (11 September 2001 Terrorist Attacks)
- TWA Flight 514 - crashed into Mount Weather during descent to Dulles International, (December 1, 1974)
[edit] U.S. Virgin Islands
- American Airlines Flight 625 crashed in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
[edit] Pacific Ocean
- AeroPeru Flight 603 - Off of the coast of Peru
- Alaska Airlines Flight 261 - Off the coast of Oxnard, California
- Aloha Airlines Flight 243 - Passenger roof blew off while the aircraft was flying an inter-island flight in Hawaii. The plane landed safely at Kahului Airport.
- China Airlines Flight 006 - Plunged 30,000 feet while 350 miles northwest of San Francisco
- Flying Tigers Line Flight 739 - mid-ocean
[edit] Philippine Sea
- Philippine Airlines Flight 434 - bomb exploded on board over Minami Daito Island, near Okinawa, Japan
[edit] Red Sea
- Flash Airlines Flight 604 - Crashed off of Sharm el-Shaikh, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
[edit] Sea of Okhotsk
- Korean Air Flight 7 - Shot down over Soviet airspace
[edit] South America
[edit] Argentina
- LAPA Flight 3142 - Crashed at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, Buenos Aires
[edit] Colombia
- American Airlines Flight 965 - Crashed into a mountain in Colombia
- Avianca Flight 410 - Crashed in Santander, Colombia
[edit] Surinam
- Surinam Airways Flight 764 - Crashed at Zanderij airport, Surinam
[edit] Venezuela
- West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 in western Venezuela; 160 killed, no survivors.
- Cubana Flight 3010: Russian-built Yak-42 crashed near Valencia, Venezuela and killed 22. The crash took the number of Cubana disasters from 1970 to 2000 to eight; one of them (see above) was the result of sabotage [5]. [6].
- Cubana Ilyushin 18 Venezuela 28 March 2005 [7]
[edit] Peru
- A TANS Airlines Boeing 737-200 passenger plane crashes during a storm in the Peruvian jungle, killing at least 40 people of the approximately 100 on board.
- The LANSA Lockheed Electra OB-R-941 on a flight from Lima to Pucallpa, Peru, breaks apart in mid-air after being set aflame by lightning. It crashes in the Amazonian Rainforest. 91 people die; the sole survivor is Juliane Koepcke, a 17-year old girl who survives a fall from 2 miles and 10-day walk through the jungle before being found by hunters. Her mother, famous ornithologist Maria Koepcke, dies; director Werner Herzog had narrowly missed being on the same flight.
[edit] Brazil
- Vasp Flight 168 - Crashed into the Aratanha mountains in Ceará, northeast Brazil.
- Varig Flight 254 - Crashed into a jungle near Sao Jose do Xingu into the Cachimbo mountains, central-west Brazil
- Tam Flight 402 - Crashed near the airport of Congonhas in São Paulo, southeast Brazil during the take-off.
- Gol Flight 1907 - Crashed into a jungle near Sao Jose do Xingu into the Cachimbo mountains, central-west Brazil after a collision.
- Rico Flight 4823 - Crashed near the city of Manaus, north Brazil.
[edit] Strait of Hormuz
- Iran Air Flight 655 - Shot down by an American naval vessel
[edit] Taiwan Strait
- China Airlines Flight 611 - Broke up in the Taiwan Strait
